Verdigris / Ambergris
2024
First edition of Verdigris / Ambergris by Paul Graham (2024)
First impression
Two hardback books housed in an embossed slipcase
Signed by Paul Graham to an extra image plate, glued into the inside back cover to one of the books
About
Verdigris / Ambergris completes a twelve-year suite of works by Paul Graham focused on life’s transience and our mortality. This pair of sibling books is centered on people scanning the infinite horizon as they look out over land (Verdigris) and sea (Ambergris). Interleaved with these contemplative portraits in the first volume are images of cherry blossoms and in the second images of the setting sun. These photographs are made respectively in a park overlooking post-industrial New Jersey, in which Graham has worked for the past seven years, and along the northern coast of Long Island, where there is a long tradition of watching the setting sun.